About

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American actress. She rose to international fame for her role as Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends from 1994 to 2004, which earned her Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards. Aniston has consistently ranked among the world’s highest-paid actresses, as of 2023.[1][2]

Jennifer Aniston

Aniston in 2012
Born
Jennifer Joanna Aniston

February 11, 1969 (age 56)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupations
  • Actress
  • producer
Years active 1987–present
Works Full list
Spouse

(m. 2000; div. 2005)

Partner Justin Theroux (2011–2017)
Parents
Awards Full list

The daughter of actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow, she began working as an actress at an early age with an uncredited role in the 1988 film Mac and Me. Her first major film role came in the 1993 horror comedy Leprechaun. She has since starred in a string of successful comedy films such as Office Space (1999), Bruce Almighty (2003), The Break-Up (2006), Marley & Me (2008), Just Go with It(2011), Horrible Bosses (2011), We’re the Millers(2013), Dumplin’ (2018), and Murder Mystery(2019). Aniston also starred in the acclaimed independent films The Good Girl (2002), Friends with Money (2006), and Cake (2014). She returned to television in 2019, producing and starring in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show, for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Aniston has been included in numerous magazines’ lists of the world’s most beautiful women. Her net worth is estimated as US$300 million, and her box office gross is over $1.6 billion worldwide.[3] She is the recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is the co-founder of the production company Echo Films, established in 2008.

Early life

Aniston was born on February 11, 1969, in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles[4][5] to Greek-born actor John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow.[4] One of her maternal great-grandfathers, Louis Grieco, was from Italy.[6] Her mother’s other ancestry includes English, Irish, Scottish, and a small amount of Greek. Her father’s ancestry is from the Greek island of Crete. Aniston has two half-brothers: John Melick, her older maternal half-brother; and Alex Aniston, her younger paternal half-brother.[4] Her godfather was actor Telly Savalas, one of her father’s best friends.[4][7]Her family moved to New York City when she was a child.[4] Despite her father’s television career, she was discouraged from watching television, though she found ways around the prohibition. When she was six, she began attending a Waldorf school.[8]Her parents divorced when she was nine.[9]Having discovered acting at age 11 at the Waldorf school,[9] Aniston enrolled in Manhattan’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where she joined the school’s drama society,[10] and where Anthony Abeson was her drama teacher.[11] She performed in The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window by Lorraine Hansberryand Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov.

Personal life

Aniston practices Hatha yoga and Budokan karate.[185][186][187] In 2014, she spoke of her Transcendental Meditation practice.[188] The following year, she said dyslexia had affected her education and self-esteem and that, after being diagnosed in her twenties, her outlook toward life changed. “I thought I wasn’t smart. I just couldn’t retain anything. Now I had this great discovery. I felt like all of my childhood trauma-dies, tragedies, dramas were explained.”[189]Aniston donated to Barack Obama‘s 2008 presidential campaign and took part in a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign.[190][191][192] She endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.[193]Aniston does not have any children. In November 2022, she appeared on the cover of Allure for their final print issue.[194] In the accompanying interview, Aniston said she had undergone in vitro fertilization(IVF) to try to have children when she was in her thirties and forties, but the attempts did not result in any pregnancies.[195] She said, “All the years and years and years of speculation… It was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it.”[194] In July 2024, after comments about “childless cat ladies” that Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vancemade in 2021 went viral, Aniston stated on social media that:

All I can say is… Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day (…) I hope she will not need to turn to IVF as a second option. Because you are trying to take that away from her, too.[196]

In 2023, she said Adam Sandler‘s family sent her flowers every year on Mother’s Day.[197]

Relationships

Aniston met Brad Pitt in 1998, and their relationship was highly publicized.[198][199] After two years of dating, they married on July 29, 2000, in a lavish Malibu, California, wedding. For a few years, their marriage was considered a rare Hollywood success.[4] On January 7, 2005, they announced their separation,[200] and finalized their divorce on October 2.[201] During their divorce proceedings, news media speculated that Pitt had been unfaithful to Aniston with his Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie, with whom he began a relationship soon after the split.[202] In the months following, the public’s reaction towards the divorce played out as “Team Aniston” and “Team Jolie” T-shirts appeared throughout the country.[202] In 2015, Aniston said, “Nobody did anything wrong… It was just like, sometimes things [happen].”[189]

Aniston said the divorce prompted her to reach out to her mother, Nancy, from whom she had been estranged for nearly a decade. Nancy had talked about her daughter on a television show and written From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir(1999).[203][204]

In 2006, Aniston said she had been devastated by the death of her longtime therapist, whom she credited for helping make her separation from Pitt easier.[52] She said she did not regret her relationship with Pitt, describing it as “very intense” and “a beautiful, complicated relationship”.[205]

Aniston began a relationship with actor, director, and screenwriter Justin Theroux in May 2011. The following January, they purchased a home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles for roughly $22 million.[206] They became engaged on August 10, 2012[207] and had a non-legally binding[citation needed] wedding ceremony on August 5, 2015, at their estate.[208] They separated at the end of 2017.

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